Firefox Mobile RC1 Available on Maemo Devices (Nokia N900, N810)

Mozilla has just released the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version of its mobile browser, Fennec, but only for Maemo devices. This means that if you own a Nokia N900 or Nokia 810, you’re a lucky gal or fellow, since you’ll be able to mess with Firefox for Maemo.

Firefox for mobile comes with a bunch of nice features, among which there’s the Awesome Bar, plus the Password Manager, but also tabbed browsing and location-based browsing. One-touch bookmarking is also on the list, together with desktop syncing and add-ons for an extra bit of customization and personalization.

Version RC1 improves some of the aspects of previous Fennec releases, like text rendering and it also solves a couple of N900-specific bugs. You can download this version of Fennec from here and know that if you’re already playing with the beta, you’ll get your upgrade soon.

phone such as an app launcher, virtual keyboard, dialer, SMS, contacts, photo viewer as well as a Fennec FireFox mobile web browser. It’s probably not ideal for everybody just yet, but good enough for some developers itching